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I think im developing an eating disorder
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Hi bc008!
I'm originally from Michigan
. I live in Japan now, so I moved a few miles away, but I'm still a Michigander at heart.
Anyway, you should seek out someone who can give you better advice than a bunch of internet forum-browsing goonies like us. Most of us have probably little qualification to help you, if any.
You could probably even find a website where people with eating disorders talk about how they feel or what they do to solve such things, or simply talk to someone in person who can help you.
If you're young, it could just be hormones that screw up your sense of hunger and control, since I know I wasn't exactly a healthy eater as a teenager. Just remember to eat regular, balanced meals with vegetables and fruits, go light on the meat, nuts, eggs, etc., and take supplements to help even out the balance.
Skipping breakfast is bad... Unless you're fasting, never skip breakfast. And, of course, never make a meal out of junk; never make a meal out of three large french fries, candy bars, potato chips, or cookies/cake. If you never feel appropriate hungry, and eating is generally a chore, go to the doctor and have your thyroid checked out.
I'm originally from Michigan
. I live in Japan now, so I moved a few miles away, but I'm still a Michigander at heart.Anyway, you should seek out someone who can give you better advice than a bunch of internet forum-browsing goonies like us. Most of us have probably little qualification to help you, if any.
You could probably even find a website where people with eating disorders talk about how they feel or what they do to solve such things, or simply talk to someone in person who can help you.
If you're young, it could just be hormones that screw up your sense of hunger and control, since I know I wasn't exactly a healthy eater as a teenager. Just remember to eat regular, balanced meals with vegetables and fruits, go light on the meat, nuts, eggs, etc., and take supplements to help even out the balance.
Skipping breakfast is bad... Unless you're fasting, never skip breakfast. And, of course, never make a meal out of junk; never make a meal out of three large french fries, candy bars, potato chips, or cookies/cake. If you never feel appropriate hungry, and eating is generally a chore, go to the doctor and have your thyroid checked out.
It isn't just hormones: nutritional and useful physical education are almost non-existant in public school systems across North America. Far too many people simply don't know what a calorie is. they don't understand the relationship between sugars, fat, liquids and weight gain, or the relationship between weight loss and exercise.
This isn't just something that doctors and "health nuts" should know, but typically they are the only ones who do (and many of the latter have a better understanding than the former). This is something that should be taught in school at all levels, because it is the basics for how your body works. What could be more important than fueling your body properly and living a healthy life? It's our attitudes that need to be changed, not our hormones.